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Sr. Software Engineer--M365 Storage

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Shanghai, SuzhouFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and operate large-scale storage, data, and distributed platform services powering Microsoft 365 and AI workloads at hyperscale. Focus areas include distributed systems, storage infrastructure, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and AI-native development practices.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and operate large-scale distributed services and platform components.
  • Drive feature development from requirements through design, implementation, deployment, and production support.
  • Improve scalability, reliability, availability, and performance of mission-critical services.
  • Investigate and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems.
  • Optimize latency, throughput, resource efficiency, and storage utilization.
  • Develop and maintain service telemetry, monitoring, diagnostics, and automated recovery mechanisms.
  • Contribute to architectural design reviews and technical decision making.
  • Collaborate across teams to deliver end-to-end platform solutions.
  • Apply AI-assisted development tools and AI-native engineering practices to improve development velocity and software quality.
  • Build automation for testing, validation, deployment, and operational workflows.
  • Champion engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, design discussions, and operational best practices.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and drive improvements that reduce operational burden.
  • Leverage data and production insights to guide technical investments and architectural evolution.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: required to pass upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Skills

Required:Programming languages (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python)
Nice to have:Distributed systems
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